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(Taste, July 31) that the Hindu American Foundation and other groups that promote religious understanding and pluralism "appear hypersensitive" because they speak out against misportrayal of Hindu beliefs and practices.
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In the meantime I'd recomend reading over it and thinking about both the potential for misportrayal of any concept or history if it were presented in such a manner AND the potential motivations for the creation of such and episode.
Jerry Falwell: Romney's Mormonism "Will Not Be A Factor" 2009
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But the revisionist effort to air-brush the Jews out of millennia of their own history resonates widely; in the UK, for instance, the malevolent misportrayal of Israel as an illegitimate colonial usurper has moved from the province of the far-Left inexorably towards the mainstream.
Happy Birthday, Israel.... GayandRight 2008
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Then after he hooks up with Jolie several months later, she backtracks and points the finger to Jolie and validates the tabloid misportrayal, paints a horrid false portrait using the gossip and any angle she could think of.
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I'm talking about a much broader swathe of the white American public, largely Southern, who I think are very angry about Jena and what they see as a misportrayal of what happened in Jena.
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I'm talking about a much broader swathe of the white American public, largely Southern, who I think are very angry about Jena and what they see as a misportrayal of what happened in Jena.
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"We are arguing for a measure of deference, where it is appropriate ... not too much, but some understanding," he told the court, claiming a misportrayal of the SCA decision by Cosatu and the CCMA.
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I'm talking about a much broader swath of the white American public, largely Southern, who I think are very angry about Jena and what they see as a misportrayal of what happened in Jena.
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I'm talking about a much broader swathe of the white American public, largely Southern, who I think are very angry about Jena and what they see as a misportrayal of what happened in Jena.
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Unfortunately, the misportrayal in the western media is not so correct, so this is the territory that we have.
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